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Summer Health Activity: Visiting the Doctor

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students play with dolls to act out feelings about a common experience. In this early childhood lesson plan, students use social, language, and fine motor skills while developing an understanding of their own bodies and the role of an...
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Vegetable Soup: A Reverse Recipe

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students cook up a healthy soup. In this early childhood food and cooking lesson plan, students gain knowledge about healthy diets, identify a variety of fruits and vegetable, and identify the connection between food served in the home...
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Pretzel Mania

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this lesson plan, students enhance their number and letter recognition. Students make letters and numbers with pretzel dough. Students prepare the pretzel dough, shape it, bake it, and eat it. In this lesson plan, students test...
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Spider Pretzels

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this cooking worksheet, students read a recipe for a snack called Spider Pretzels. Using round crackers, peanut butter, stick pretzels and raisins, students follow the directions to make a spider they can eat.
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Herbs

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this herbs worksheet, learners view, sample and discuss eighteen main herbs used in cooking and circle each one in a word search puzzle.
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Cooking Coloring Page

For Students K - 2nd
In this social studies instructional activity, students color in the picture of the woman cooking during the early times of The American Colonies.
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Nacho Beef Dip Recipe

For Students 4th - 5th
For this cooking worksheet, students follow 7 steps to use a microwave and cook a nacho beef dip. Students see that the verbs in the recipe are in all capital letters and underlined. The steps where students must be careful or get adult...
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Basic Cooking Principles

For Students 6th - 8th
For this home economics worksheet, middle schoolers find the terms that are related to the subject of cooking. The answers are found when clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Mystery Recipe Lab

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of cooking a new recipe. The book "Cook-a-Doodle-Doo" is used to create the context for the lesson. They use the ingredients and recipe in the lesson and work in groups in...
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Preparing to Cook

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore cooking. They follow safe procedures for food safety hygiene. Students discuss their experiences of cooking at home and school. They discuss what they did to prepare to cook. Students view a video. They create a poster...
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Meat Test

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore basics of meat, meat cookery, and preparation skills and techniques in safe handling procedure. Students state qualities or advantages of casserole, identify parts of casserole, food ingredients, function of...
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Microwave Introduction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students take true and false pretest, and explore and practice basic principles of microwave cooking and how to use and care for it properly while preparing foods. Students watch teacher demonstration and then prepare their own bags of...
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Dinner Etiquette

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students in Family and Consumer Sciences classes plan a complete dinner menu that is nutritious and appetizing. They set a table using the correct dishes and utensils, prepare the meal using correct procedures, and serve it using proper...
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Cooking Super Star Meals with Kids

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore the benefits of allowing and providing specifically designed age-appropriate cooking experiences for young children. They "cook" a variety of creative, healthy dishes designed for 3-5 year-olds to make and to help them...
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German Chefs and Cookbook

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore German vocabulary words associated with food and cooking. Individually, students locate German recipes and then prepare authentic German food to share with the class. They share recipes and compile a German cookbook.
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Solar Cooking

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils create brochures focusing on one area of climate change that interests them. This instructional activity ends with a creative project building Earth Day solar cookers and having a class cookout.
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Ice Cream Lesson Plan for Kindergarten

For Teachers K
Pupils explore how ice cream is made in a factory and at home. They help make ice cream in the classroom. They measure out the ingredients. Students share the ice cream when it is done.
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Mouthwatering Mollusks

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate various forms of aquatic life. They use four senses, touch, taste, smell, and observation to explore mollusks. Students cook and taste various types mollusks, such as mussels, scallops, and squid.
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ESL Activity - Authentic Cooking Experience

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars encounter imperatives used for the instructions for this cooking experience. They review selected vocabulary terms for food and the process of cooking. Students identify adverbs of sequence (first, then, etc.). They follow...
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Casserole Lab

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students participate in a lecture and lab explaining the qualities of a casserole, identifying the different kinds, the function of the ingredients and foods used in the preparation of the casserole.
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Food, Meals, and Cooking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners examine the eating habits of people in other countries and learn new vocabulary. They also practice using nouns and the passive voice.
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San Francisco Cooking

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners investigate the history of San Francisco, California and then create recipes from the area, including a Monte Cristo Sandwich, Sourdough Bread, and a Golden Gate Burger.
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Eggs Introduction

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research eggs including their structure, sizes, grades, nutritional value, functions in recipes, preparation techniques, and storage guidelines. They prepare a recipe including eggs.
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Abbreviations, Substitutions, Equivalents, Cooking Terms

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars review abbreviations of words used in recipes, acceptable substitutions of foods in recipes, standard equivalents of measurements and correct terminology of cooking terms through the use of written assignments.